Academics

At Webb we focus on giving students a broad-based liberal arts and sciences education where learning happens through authentic discovery and rigorous scholarship. We work to prepare students, not just for entry into the most selective colleges and universities, but also for the rigors of leading in a fast-paced, fluid global community where personal integrity and moral courage are paramount.

Athletics

Webb athletics, built on our core value of honor, promotes character, self-confidence, and a sense of commitment that inspires student athletes to become leaders throughout their lives. We field 42 teams in 15 different sports. Webb teams own 80 league titles and 3 CIF titles.

Arts

Art is about seeing different perspectives, effectively communicating ideas, and finding inventive solutions to problems—all essential skills for future leadership. At Webb, art is not extra: every student takes at least two years of art courses, and student art is part of almost every aspect of campus life.

Alf Museum

The Alf Museum is a perfect example of unbounded thinking in action. It’s not just a place where students go to look at fossils. It’s a place where students are part of the scientific process, where they learn the joy of discovery, where they actually advance science.

Support Webb

Thank you for taking a few moments to learn about supporting The Webb Schools and how your support makes Webb’s mission possible. Webb is a very special place. It’s academic mission, nearly 100 years old, is more relevant and exciting today than ever before.

Summer Programs

Come experience the wonders of boarding school life this summer at Webb. We offer an amazing opportunity for students advancing into grades 7, 8, and 9. Our Junior Scholars Program is one-of-a-kind with special concentrations in paleontology, leadership, digital arts, and science and engineering.

News

New Research Publications for Webb Students and Faculty at Alf Museum

5/11/2017

By Dr. Andrew Farke

Congratulations are due to Will Abersek ’17, Chandler Luebbers ’17, and Emily Chu ’17, on the recent publication of their research. Their work appears in the 2017 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, published by the California State University Desert Studies Center.

Abersek’s paper, "Biostratigraphy of nonmarine Miocene gastropods from the Barstow Formation of California," discusses the occurrence of fossil snails near Barstow, featuring many specimens collected by Webb students, faculty, and alumni over the past 70 years. The Barstow Formation was formed during a time of great climatic change, and so this paper and others from the Alf Museum helps lay groundwork for a better understanding of this very timely issue!

Luebbers and Chu's paper, "A preliminary restudy of felid footprints housed at the Alf Museum from the Barstow Formation (Miocene) of southern California" discusses some rare cat tracks, also collected by various Webb/Alf expeditions. They discovered that previous research on the footprints probably overestimated the number of species represented in the sample.

Last, Dr. Don Lofgren and several recent alumni (Gabe Gosney ‘14, Chloe Soltis ‘13, Kristina Oney ‘14, and Lauren West ’14) had a paper published last month in Paludicola, titled "New records of Kimbetohia campi and Xanclomys mcgrewi (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from the Fort Union Formation of the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming." This work was completed while all of them were students at Webb, and highlights some important fossil mammals that show a much broader geographic range for the species than previously expected.

Copies of the publications are included here. In addition to these and other research publications, students and staff have participated in professional presentations, public outreach events, and much more. And there's lots more on the horizon, too, so stay tuned!

From high school sweethearts to alumni who were married in Vivian Webb Chapel, Webb has been the site of many romances over the years. Here are a few stories from alumni who met on Webb’s beautiful campus.

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From high school sweethearts to alumni who were married in Vivian Webb Chapel, Webb has been the site of many romances over the years. Here are a few stories from alumni who met on Webb’s beautiful campus.

The Week @ Webb is a periodic photojournal of events on and off Webb's campus. Did it feel like January lasted 31,000 days instead of just 31? I know that for me, it's important to spend as much time as I can with other people when life gets really busy. We all do better when we surround ourselves with friends and family and that's what I tried to capture in this latest gallery.

Taking stock. This is how it begins—simply though completely. After more than a year of planning, gathering data, meeting, discussing, writing and rewriting—and after a four-day campus stay by our CAIS/WASC visiting committee (California Association of Independent Schools / Western Association of Schools and Colleges)—the evaluation work is done.